Quotes About Values

When we do not express ourselves, do not assert our being, do not stand up for our values in contexts where it is appropriate to do so, we inflict wounds on our sense of self. The world does not do it to us, we do it to ourselves.

The weaknesses and defects, the bad passions, the mean tendencies, and the moral diseases which lead to crime are handed down from one generation to another, by a far surer process of transmission than human law has been able to establish in respect to the riches and honors which it seeks to entail upon posterity.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn't.

It's always the lesser of two evils.' 'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.' -Connor

If every parent unwound a kid due to disrespect, the human race would go extinct in a single generation

Funny how morality, which always seems so black and white can be influenced so completely by what you were raised to believe.

Respect borne of fear is not the same as respect borne of love. One passes with you to the grave, the other flourishes after your departure.

who cared about the lettuce when the beef was being devoured?

Don't tell Roland," he says. "The only reason he's being so nice to the two of you is because he believes in the sanctity of the nuclear family.

It didn't take long for ethics to be crushed by greed.

I would never hurt one person's chances to help another--even if that other person was someone I cared about.

submission. Is that the world you want to live in?

Never lose your humanity," Scythe Faraday had told him, "or you'll be nothing more than a killing machine." He had used the word "killing" rather than "gleaning." Rowan hadn't thought much of it at the time, but now he understood; it stopped being gleaning the moment one became desensitized to the act.

Pukeutumisen moraalinen merkitys. Pukeutumisen tuottamat tyydytykset.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

A whore is a woman who takes more than she gives. A man who takes more than he gives is called a businessman.

There we were, a shipping clerk and a janitor discussing theories in aesthetics while all about us men drawing 10 times our salaries were lost out on the limb reaching for rotten fruit. What does this say for the American way of life?

Most of all, the clash between Vogtians and Borlaugians is heated because it is less about facts than about values. Although the two men rarely acknowledged it, their arguments were founded on implicit moral and spiritual visions: concepts of the world and humankind's place in it.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth

And in proportion as riches and rich men are honored in the state, virtue and the virtuous are dishonored. And what is honored is cultivated, and that which has no honor is neglected.

Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light declaration about freedom in the other. And then an outlaw sticks a pistol in his face and says give me one or the other. Every time—every ten out of ten —he'll hug the sack and throw away the ideals. Because the sack's what's behind the ideals, like the foundation under a building.